MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL received the American Hospital Association‘s inaugural Equity of Care Award for its efforts to reduce health care disparities and promote diversity within the organization’s leadership and staff. The award was presented July 21 at the Health Forum-AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
